Power outages are very frustrating. I spent my teen years in southern Spain (mid 1970's) and the power being out was an almost daily occurrence.

That said, when I lived in Texas during the 1980s and 1990's we had frequent power outages during the summer "thunderstorm season" when lighting would strike a transformer station or high winds would blow trees across the lines.

Now it's 2021, and I live in a semi-rural area of Western Washington state. The power goes out here, too... but usually only for a few minutes at a time, till someone routes the flow around the "down point." But it still happens.